I meant to post about this over the weekend, but… well, I forgot. I didn’t see much chatter about this over the leap day, but here it is.
On a system that uses Postfix 2.2.9 on SLES 10, Postfix started acting quite wonky on February 29th, 2008. In a standard Postfix+Amavis+ClamAv setup, you actually have two Postfix daemons – one listening on port 25 (duh), the other listening on port 10025 waiting to get mail handed off from amavis+clamav.
Jeff Jones Security Blog : July 2007 – Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard
Jeff Jones, who makes a living for himself as a security consultant, has released a scorecard for operating systems as they stood around July 2007.
Not surprisingly, the charts are fodder for everyone to bolster their arguments about which OS is better, which therefore just doesn’t prove much at all… except perhaps the definition of the word “futility.”
Apple beats Microsoft at its own Open XML game
Couldn’t have said it better myself. I like it when I agree with people who are paid to analyze this stuff.
Last night I attended the MacBU WWDC 2007 reception. It was quite the party. I met the new GM of MacBU, Craig Eisler. He’s a very energetic fellow. One fo the MacBU devs described him as “kinetic.” That’s probably accurate.
We spoke a little bit about issues with Entourage that plague our mail system, but I turned the conversation to something a little more positive. He was one of the first DirectX developers back in the Windows 95 days. That made him a hero for me. It was great to meet him.
Well, tonight is another night for that New Year’s thing. First off, let me say… Happy 2007!
Today we ate/socialized with Whitey and Vo0 at Cheeburger Cheeburger in Providence. Funtastic time! Thanks for the Christmas gift, guys! I can hardly wait to play it! I’m glad you guys are back in town and enjoying it so far. This town has become so much more interesting lately – and it’s only getting better. Besides, you’re just keeping with the trend of everyone moving away… then coming back… heh.
Aquatix was asking on a post or two ago about, “How is deprecating webdav a good thing?”
The problem with webdav is that while webdav is meant to be a standard, I’ve rarely met a client that handled it properly. I would also point out that some of these problems were not implementations with the client, but implementations with the server side and the relation to the client.
The new model in Exchange 2007 is to deprecate webdav support in favor of web services (via SOAL/XML, etc.). This is a boon for clients because it uses a standardized model to feed data and the response is just XML. How badly can a client screw that up? That means the server-side is no longer an equation in poor Exchange support.
I hope the Evolution developers are sitting up and paying attention to Exchange 2007. Exchange 2007 is intended to be a bridge toward a web services model for communicating with the server for all functions external to the system. WebDAV is deprecated. I’ve seen it, it’s true, it’s exciting, and it’s a boon for Evolution and other webDAV clients that currently suck.
One blogger talks about it here.
I hope the Evolution developers are sitting up and paying attention to Exchange 2007. Exchange 2007 is intended to be a bridge toward a web services model for communicating with the server for all functions external to the system. WebDAV is deprecated. I’ve seen it, it’s true, it’s exciting, and it’s a boon for Evolution and other webDAV clients that currently suck.
One blogger talks about it here.
